The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
This paper describes our methodology for building conformant planners, which is based on recent advances in the theory of action and change and answer set programming. The develop...
Phan Huy Tu, Tran Cao Son, Michael Gelfond, A. Ric...
We present a novel definition of privacy in the framework of offline (retroactive) database query auditing. Given information about the database, a description of sensitive data, ...
Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Ronald Fagin, David P. W...